Amino derivatives of terrasubstituted benzene compounds

ABSTRACT

Antimicrobial 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted benzenes having the structure:   WHEREIN R and R&#39;&#39; may be methyl, or a halogen when R&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39; is -CH2-; or R and R&#39;&#39;, taken together, may be methylene dioxy; R&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39; may be methyl or nitro; R&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39; may be absent or may be -CH2- or -CH ; and X is the residue of a substituted amino or a polyamino radical.

United States Patent [1 1 Merianos et a1.

[ ]*May 27, 1975 AMINO DERIVATIVES OF TERRASUBSTITUTED BENZENE COMPOUNDS [75] Inventors: John J. Merianos, Jersey City;

Phillip Adams, Murray Hill, both of NJ.

Related U.S. Application Data [60] Division of Ser. Nov 298,759, Oct. 18, 1972, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 291,824, Sept. 25, 1972, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 130,783, April 2, 1971, Pat. No. 3,821,407.

[ Notice:

[52] U.S. Cl. 424/330; 71/67; 162/161;

260/340.5; 424/282 [51] Int. Cl A01n 9/00 [58] Field of Search 71/67; 424/282, 330

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,645,715 2/1972 Daum et a1. 71/67 3,689,504 9/1972 Harrom 424/330 3,697,589 10/1972 Menasse et a1. 424/330 Primary Examiner-James 0. Thomas, Jr. Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Arthur A. Jacobs, Esq.

[ 5 7] ABSTRACT Antimicrobial l,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted benzenes having the structure:

wherein R and R may be methyl, or a halogen when R is CH --;-or R and R, taken together, may be methylene dioxy; R" may be methyl or nitro; R' may be absent or may be -CH or -C1-l=; and X is the residue of a substituted amino or a polyamino radical.

5 Claims, N0 Drawings AMINO DERIVATIVES OF TERRASUBSTITUTED BENZENE COMPOUNDS This application is a division of co-pending application Ser. No. 298,759, filed Oct. 18, 1972; which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 291,824, filed Sept. 25, 1972; which is, in turn, a continuationin-part of application Ser. No. 130,783, filed Apr. 2, 1971, now issued as US. Pat. No. 3,821,407, dated June 28, 1974.

This invention relates to novel and potent antimicrobial agents comprising amino derivatives of certain 1,2,4,5 tetrasubstituted benzenes.

In accordance with the present invention, potent antimicrobial effects are obtained in the use of compounds having the general structure:

wherein R and R may be methyl, or a halogen when R' is -Cl-l or R and R, taken together, may be methylene dioxy; R may be methyl or nitro; R may be absent or may be CH or CH=; and X is the residue of a lower alkyl, monoor polyamino, or alkanolamino radical.

The configuration of these tetrasubstituted benzenes is mainly, but not necessarily exclusively, 1,2,4,5. For example, the chloromethylation of pseudocumene to trimethylbenzyl chloride by methods known to the art produces about 80 to 85 percent of the 2,4,5- trimethylbenzyl chloride isomer; about -15 percent of the 2,3,5 isomer; about 10-15 percent of the 2,3,5 isomer; and small amounts of the 2,3,6 isomer. The chloromethylation of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene yields a similar distribution.

Halogenation of pseudocumene also results in comparable isomeric distribution; of which, for example,

the 5-halo trimethylbenzene is a solid, which is easily separated from its liquid isomers.

The antimicrobial amino derivatives of the present invention will be referred to hereinafter as the principal l,2,4,5-components, with the understanding that minor amounts of the isomeric compounds may be present.

Among the intermediate agents with which the amino compounds described hereinafter are reacted to produce the products of the invention are trimethylbenzene halides, trihalobenzyl halides, trimethylhalobenzenes, trimethyl benzaldehydes, and nitropiperonal; the halogen in each case being selected from the group consisting of chlorine, bromine and iodine.

The amino compounds which are employed in condensation reactions to yield the products of the invention are organic amines, polyamines, or alkanolamines having at least one primary amino group, such, for example, as ethanolamine, ethylene diamine, propylene diamine, hydroxyethyl ethylene diamine, dimethylaminopropylamine, and the like.

The antimicrobial properties of these products or of their salts make them effective preservatives, sanitizing and disinfecting agents which are effective against bacteria, fungi and algae. They may be applied to the preservation of cosmetics and to the preservation of waterbased paints, both in the emulsion and in the applied and dried film. They may also be used in the preservation of metal working fluids such as cutting and grinding oils, to prevent putrefaction. They are, additionally, effective for the treatment of process and cooling water in such fields as paper making and the like, and in heat exchangers, air conditioners, humidifiers and dehumidifiers and the like. They are useful for the sanitization of surfaces and, in fact, whereever an antibacterial agent may be required.

The following examples are intended to illustrate but not to limit the invention, except as claimed:

EXAMPLE 1 Pseudocumene was chloromethylated by the procedure described by R. D. Lake and B. B. Corson, in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 24, pp. 1823-24. The washed crude was distilled to separate the unreacted residue of hydrocarbon and the small residue of bis-chloromethylated material. The 2,4,5- trimethylbenzyl chloride was obtained in about percent yield.

EXAMPLE 2 An agitated, round-bottomed flask fitted with a dropping funnel and a reflux condenser was charged with 150 grams or 2.5 mols of ethylene diamine, and the funnel was charged with 84 grams or 0.5 mol of the distilled chloromethyl trimethylbenzene of Example 1; this was added slowly, during; about one half-hour, to the amine at a temperature of about 120C, or about the reflux temperature at atmospheric pressure. The cooled mass was checked for ionic chlorine content, which was found to be of the theoretical amount.

ml. of 30 percent caustic soda solution was added with agitation, to liberate the product from its hydrochloride salt. 500 ml. of chloroform was added,- and the contents of the flask were transferred to a separating funnel.

The chloroform layer was tapped off, and transferred to a distilling flask wherein the chloroform was stripped off and recovered.

Distillation was continued, and the product, trimethylbenzylaminoethylamine, was recovered in 95 percent of the theoretical amount, distilling at l22l25C at 0.1 mm. pressure. It had an equivalent weight by titration, of 98.7, the theoretical being 96. The still bottoms represented about 5% of the amount of active product.

The hydrochloride salt was prepared, and found to have a melting point of 172-174C.

For commercial purposes, it is not necessary to distill the product, but merely to strip off the chloroform.

EXAMPLE 3 In the same manner as in Example 2, the reaction was carried out with, respectively, propylene diamine, 1,3- diaminopropane, dimethylaminopropylamine, hydroxyethyl ethylene diamine, diethylene triamine and ethanolamine, instead of ethylene diamine.

For example, with dimethylaminopropylamine the reflux temperature was 130140C, with diethylene triamine 130l50C, etc.

ln each case, the temperature range of about -l50C is adequate for a reaction time of about one half hour.

In the case of the high-boiling amines, such as ethanolamine, hydroxyethyl ethylene diamine and the like, it is not necessary to strip off the excess by distillation under high vacuum. Instead, after the addition of caustic and water, the aqueous layer containing the excess amine can be separated from the oily layer, and, thereafter, the water can be largely stripped off from the amine to be recovered by distillation.

EXAMPLE 4 S-chloropseudocumene was prepared by chlorinating pseudocumene in chloroform, as described in Smith and Moyles The .lacobsen Reaction, IV, in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 58, page 8 (1936), whereby 5-chloropseudocumene was separated from 3-chloropseudocumene by crystallization, the latter being liquid.

S-bromopseudocumene was prepared similarly, brominating in chloroform and separating the crystalline S-bromopseudocumene from the 3-isomer.

EXAMPLE 5 An agitated, round-bottomed flask fitted with a reflux condenser was charged with grams or 0.1 mol of the S-bromopseudocumene of Example 4 and 30 grams or 0.5 mol of ethylenediamine, plus 0.5 grams of cuprous chloride. This was heated under reflux and agitation at about 120C and atmospheric pressure for 24 hours. When bromide in titration indicated substantially complete reaction, the excess amine was stripped off, and the cooled residue was treated with 30 percent aqueous caustic soda. The product, trimethylanilinoethylamine was extracted with chloroform and washed with salt solution. The extract was filtered and stripped of chloroform, and the product was recovered as a solid melting at 22l-225C. The yield was 85-90 percent of the theoretical.

Similarly, ethanolamine substituted for ethylene diamine and reacted at 170175C for 72 hours yielded trimethylanilinoethanol; and the amines of Example 3 in general may also be reacted.

EXAMPLE 6 l,2,4-trichlorobenzene was chloromethylated by methods known to the art; for example, by treatment with paraformaldehyde and I-ICl gas in 100 percent sulfuric acid; or with paraformaldehyde and chlorosulfonic acid in concentrated sulfuric acid. The separated and washed product was distilled in vacuo to separate from unreacted trichlorobenzene, to recover the 2,4,5-trichlorobenzylchloride in good yield.

EXAMPLE 7 23 grams or 0.1 mol of 2,4,5-trichlorobenzyl chloride and 30 grams or 0.5 mol of ethylene diamine were mixed and heated on a steam bath for 4 to 6 hours until titration of chloride ion indicated essential completion of the reaction. The excess of ethylene diamine was stripped off and the residue was treated with 30 percent caustic soda and extracted with chloroform.

After distilling off the chloroform, the 2,4,5- trichlorobenzylaminoethylamine was distilled.

In a similar manner, the 2,4,5-trichlorobenzyl chloride was reacted with the amines of Example 3, to yield the corresponding trichlorobenzylamino derivatives.

EXAMPLE 8 Schiff bases were prepared by reacting the amines of Examples 1 and 3 with aromatic aldehydes.

The Sommelet reaction (described by Shacklett and Smith, among others, in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 75, pages 2654-57) was used reacting the trimethyl benzyl chloride of Example I with a 10 percent excess of hexamethylene tetramine and with formalin, in aqueous ethanol. Yields of about 60% of trimethylbenzaldehyde were obtained, in accordance with Shackletts experience.

Thirty grams or 0.2 mol of the trimethylbenzaldehyde and 23 grams or 0.225 mol of dimethylaminopropylamine in 100 ml. of benzene were heated at the reflux temperature, about C, in an agitated flask fitted with a Dean and Stark moisture trap and reflux condenser for about two hours. The theoretical amount of water distilled out.

The benzene and the excess of amine was stripped off, leaving 44 grams or percent of the theoretical of 3- (2,4,5 trimethylbenzylidene)-1- dimethylaminopropylamine as a liquid.

EXAMPLE 9 In the same apparatus, 15 grams or 0.1 mol of 2,4,5-trimethylbenzaldehyde and 3 grams or 0.05 mol of ethylene diamine were reacted in benzene, distilling out 0.1 mol of water. The product, bis (2,4,5 benzilidene)-ethylene diamine was recovered as leafy white crystals melting at 1 10l 15C.

EXAMPLE 10 Other substituted benzaldehydes were similarly reacted as in Examples 8 and 9; for example, 6-nitro piperonal (otherwise, 2-nitro-4, 5-methylenedioxybenzaldehyde) yielded, with ethylene diamine, (2-nitro-4, 5-methylenedioxybenzylidene)-ethylene diamine.

EXAMPLE I I In the same manner, 6-nitropiperonal yielded 3-(2- nitro-4,5-methylenedioxybenzylidene) l dimethylaminopropylamine.

EXAMPLE 12 In the same manner as in Example 9, the nitro substituted piperonal was reacted with one half a molar equivalent of ethylene diamine to yield the corresponding bis-(-2-nitro)- 4,5-benzylidene) diamine.

EXAMPLE 13 The Schiff bases of the preceding examples may be reduced, if it is so desired, to the correspondingbenzylamino derivatives; for example, by treatment with sodium borohydride in methanol, or by hydrogenation in the presence of Raney nickel.

EXAMPLE 14 The above compounds were tested for antimicrobial activity, using the Standard Tube Dilution Test, which is common knowledge to those skilled in the art. This test utilizes a suitable nutrient broth which is treated to provide various concentrations of the antimicrobial candidates of this invention.

To the sterile broth contained in test tubes at 9 ml. volume was added 1.0 ml. of a dilution of test antimicrobial solution, at levels of 1,000, 500, 250, 100, 50, 10 and 5 parts per million respectively. Following this, each tube was inoculated with 0.1 ml. of a broth suspension of a 24 hour culture of the test bacteria or fungi, to give a final bacterial count of 1 to 10 million 6 organisms per ml; or a fungi count of from 10,000 to The invention claimed is: 50,000 spores per ml; or 30,000 cells per ml. for algae. 1. A method of inhibiting bacteria and fungi which The tubes so inoculated were incubated for 48 and comprises applying to said bacteria and fungi an effec- 96 hours at 37C for bacteria; or 14 days at 28C for tive amount of a compound having the structure: fungi, and 7 days for algae. Following the aforemen- 5 tioned incubation periods, the tubes were examined for the presence or absence of macroscopic growth. The R R X lowest concentration of test material not permitting macroscopic growth is designated as the Minimum Inhibitory Level. The test organisms employed were: 10

R I R I I Escherichia c010 E.C.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ps.a. Staphylococcus aureus whereln R and R are either methyl, or a halogen when Streptococcus faecalis R' is CH or R and R, taken together, are meth- Aspergillus niger ylene dioxy; R" is either methyl or nitro; R is either Penicilium expansum absent or is CH or CH=; and X is the residue of chl ll pymnoidosa C p a lower alkyl, monoor poly amino, or alkanolamino radical.

In the following Table, for the sake of brevity, the de- The method of Claim 1 wherein Said Compound is rivatives of the given amine will be given as: N-trlmethylbenzyl-l P P 3. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is Trimethylbenzyl TMB N-trimethylbenzyl-N ,N '-dimethyl-l ,3- Trimethylphenyl TMP diaminopropane. Ethylene diamine ED 5 4. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is Diethylene triamine DT N-trimethylbenzyl-N'-hydroxyethyl ethylenediamine. Hydroxyethyl ethylene diamine HEED 5. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is Dimethylaminopropylamine DMAPA N-trimethylbenzyl ethanolamine.

Table I Parts per million of product inhibiting: Gram Negative Gram Positive Fungus Algae Product E.c. Ps.a. S.a. Sf. A.n. P.e. C.p.

TMB/ED 50 100 100 50 5O 5O 10 TMB/DT 50 500 50 50 500 500 50 TMB/HEED 500 1000 50 50 500 500 50 TMB/DMAPA 500 1000 50 lOO 100 [O0 10 TMB/DMAPA 500 1000 50 100 l00 100 l0 TMB/ED 100 1000 100 500 500 1000 50 Bis TMB/ED 100 1000 100 lOO 100 500 50 Bis TMB/DMAPA 100 500 l0 10 100 500 10 TCB/DT 100 lOO 50 50 l000 1000 TCB/HEED 500 l000 l000 lOOO l000 l000 TCB/ED 100 250 I00 I00 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Q PATENT NO. 3,886,284

DATED May 27, 1975 INVENTOR(S) John J. Merianos and Phillip Adams It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

In the title, change "TERRASUBSTITUTED" to 'I'ETRASUBSTITUTED Q I I Signed and Scaled thus twenty-sixth Day Of August 1975 [SEAL] i Attest.

RUTH C. MASON c. MARSHALL DANN Arresting Officer Commissioner uj'Patenls and Trademarks 

1. A METHOD OF INHIBITING BACTERIA AND FUNGI WHICH COMPRISES APPLYING TO SAID BACTERIA AND FUNGI AN EFFECTIVE AMOUNT OF A COMPOUND HAVING THE STRUCTURE:
 2. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is N-trimethylbenzyl-1,3-diaminopropane.
 3. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is N-trimethylbenzyl-N'',N''-dimethyl-1,3-diaminopropane.
 4. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is N-trimethylbenzyl-N''-hydroxyethyl ethylenediamine.
 5. The method of claim 1 wherein said compound is N-trimethylbenzyl ethanolamine. 